Thom Hamer
Biographic Data
| ID | 7102152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thom Hamer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thom |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamer |
| SIGNATURE | HAMER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5936-9468 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Case for Contingent Absurdity
A popular view on existential absurdity holds that if life is absurd, it must be inescapably so. In opposition to this view, I argue that the concept of existential absurdity allows for life to be contingently absurd. In Nausea (1938) and Being and Nothingness (1943), Jean‐Paul Sartre puts forward two distinct conceptions of an absurd life, both of which entail an absurdity that is contingent rather than inescapable. Given the internal coherence …
A Hyporeflective Response to the Absurd
If life is absurd in that we cannot help but desire the unattainable, then there is prima facie reason to lament the absurd whenever we are confronted with it. This is an intuitive idea: it is fitting to be disappointed by what is essentially disappointing. But if there is nothing we can do about the absurdity of life, we may have reason to minimize awareness of it. My paper explores this hyporeflective response. I present an initial case for hyp…
Permissibility and Justifying Reasons in the Formal Objection to Moral Error Theory
Moral error theory has recently faced formal objections. Since it denies the existence of moral properties that are defined in contradistinction to each other (e.g. permissibility and impermissibility), it appears to fall into incoherence. While some have rejected the duality of interdefinable deontic modals in response to this objection, I defend moral error theory while upholding this duality. Drawing on the distinction between ‘weak’ and ‘stro…
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A Case for Contingent Absurdity
A popular view on existential absurdity holds that if life is absurd, it must be inescapably so. In opposition to this view, I argue that the concept of existential absurdity allows for life to be contingently absurd. In Nausea (1938) and Being and Nothingness (1943), Jean‐Paul Sartre puts forward two distinct conceptions of an absurd life, both of which entail an absurdity that is contingent rather than inescapable. Given the internal coherence …
A Hyporeflective Response to the Absurd
If life is absurd in that we cannot help but desire the unattainable, then there is prima facie reason to lament the absurd whenever we are confronted with it. This is an intuitive idea: it is fitting to be disappointed by what is essentially disappointing. But if there is nothing we can do about the absurdity of life, we may have reason to minimize awareness of it. My paper explores this hyporeflective response. I present an initial case for hyp…
Permissibility and Justifying Reasons in the Formal Objection to Moral Error Theory
Moral error theory has recently faced formal objections. Since it denies the existence of moral properties that are defined in contradistinction to each other (e.g. permissibility and impermissibility), it appears to fall into incoherence. While some have rejected the duality of interdefinable deontic modals in response to this objection, I defend moral error theory while upholding this duality. Drawing on the distinction between ‘weak’ and ‘stro…
Philosophical Ethics and Theory (3 works) · Absurdity (2 works) · Free Will and Agency (2 works) · Absurdism (1 work) · Deontic logic (1 work) · Dual (grammatical number (1 work) · Dual polyhedron (1 work) · Duality (order theory (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Feeling (1 work)